Topics can examine low -
carbon rural development strategies, ridge - to - reef adaptation plans, reduced emissions from agricultural practices, vertical cultivation and agro-forestry, LULUCF accounting frameworks and so on.
These would include partnerships on global initiatives on energy access, energy efficiency, energy storage, and low -
carbon rural development.
The Nature Conservancy works with landowners, communities, and governments in Mexico to promote low -
carbon rural development through the design and implementation of improved policy and practice in agriculture, ranching, and forestry.
Not exact matches
Rural India and Africa require huge amounts of
development and that
development has bog all to do with developed world attempts to move to less
carbon - intensive energy sources.
One of the more successful
rural energy
development strategies is the use of biogas digesters, which involves a process whereby organic material such as agricultural or animal waste are broken down by specific types of bacteria by anaerobic digestion, releasing
carbon dioxide and methane gas.
The report concludes with a discussion of the reforms needed to scale up the A / R CDM in a significant manner and how this experience could inform the ongoing debate about other landbased
carbon market mechanisms to mitigate climate change and support
rural development.
In particular, it points out that, in order to effectively couple climate financing with strong and measurable sustainable
development criteria, there is a need to move beyond
carbon as a standalone tradeable commodity, by increasingly valuing the significant range of additional ecosystem and socio - economic services provided by sustainable agriculture practices and programmes that simultaneously address climate concerns and sustainable
rural development priorities.
More importantly, a «fee» legal structure limits the uses of revenue from the policy to addressing
carbon / pollution issues, not broader issues like
rural economic
development (as in 6203) or tax reform (as in I - 732).
In areas where infrastructure is poor and
carbon stores are high, REDD may offer attractive economic returns relative to conventional logging and agricultural use of forest land, especially for
rural communities, which are often bypassed by industrial
development of rainforests.
«We're pleased to welcome COTAP as our first U.S. - based partner for the Trees of Hope project, which is helping
rural communities in Malawi generate incomes, address environmental challenges and sequester
carbon emissions,» said Walker Morris, Director of the Clinton
Development Initiative.
An act related to reducing
carbon pollution by investing in
rural economic
development and a clean energy economy.